There is no "management". There's just people, in positions or more or less power over others. At some companies, these people are well selected, trained, and

There is no "management". There's just people, in positions or more or less power over others. At some companies, these people are well selected, trained, and caring individuals who understand who to build and nurture teams. At others, these people are dicks who have got into their position via Peter Principle. being frat buddies with CEO etc. who view workers as resources to be squeezed and discarded. And everywhere in between. Sounds like you got unlucky at that place.